Cabinet for drying films, plates, and prints.



. P. HENRY.

CABINET FOR DRYING FILMS, PLATES, AND PRINTS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.27| |914.

, PatentedSept.14,l 1915.

INVENTOR:

WALTER r'. HENRY, or Das MOINES, Lowa.

CABINET FOR DRYING FILMS, PLATES, AND PRINTS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALTER P, HENRY, acitizen of the United States,v residing in Des Moines, county of Polk,and State of Iowa,

have inventeda new and usefulIimprove-y `improved cabinet for receivingand drying the lms, plates, prints and the like. Under l ordinaryconditions the drying process for these-articles consumes a great amountof tlme and it is my purpose to reduce this 4necessary time to a veryfew minutes and thereby greatly facilitate the work.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter setforth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings in which- Figure I shows a sectional view of myy device; Fig.II shows a sectional view of a part of my device, lookin from a positionin front of same; Fi I I shows a transverse sectional view o my device;and Fig.'

' IVshows a detail view of a plate rack I emvided with numeroushoo ploy.

the vreference 10 is used to indicate a rectangular cabinet ofpractically the proporrality lof vertical frames 12, designed to be'separately removable therefrom, and adapt- Aed .to have prints, and thelike, secured 'toA either side surface, when desired. 'To the undersurface of the Klattice partition 11 are secured a plurality of stri s13, each ro 14 to w 'ch iilms-jlv are designed to be secured and todepend therefrom, Onthe inner surface of Specification of LettersPatent.

Referringto the afscompanying drawings bottom thereof.

Patenten sept.. ia, reis.

Application` filed April 27, 1914. Serial No.' 884,631.

the rear wall of the cabinet I have mounted plate racks having a base16, a back 17, and supporting arms 18. The backs are loosely secured tothe base, as are also the arms, so that, when not in use, the plateracks may be folded against the rear wall of the cabinet, as shown inFig. IV.

At the lower extremity of the cabinet the sides and the rear wall'convere, curving as shown, so that they meet to orm a curved base. The forwardwall of the cabinet is provided with a large opening 19 from which atube 2O extends outwardly, and in said tube is secured an electric fan21, designed to throw air into the cabinet. The air strikes the curvedbase of the cabinet and is deflected and spread so' as to reach, in agentle manner, all partsl of the cabinet, passing through the slottedpartition, to the upper section. I have also provided an outlet opening22 lin the top of the cabinet.

By the use of air blown from an electric fan into my especiallyconstructed cabinet films, plates prints, and the like, may bethoroughly dried in a very few minutes.

Having thus described -my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States is:

A cabinet for drying lilms, plates and prints composed of a case havinga slotted partition below itsl to removable spaced vertical printholding rames seated at their bottoms'on the top face of the partitionand engaged at their tops with the top of the case, film holding meansconnected to the under face of the artition, and means to supply acurrent o-airl to the case at the I WALTER?. HENRY. Witnessesz. ZELL G.Ron, E. @.ROE.

